Eight years after Fourmile Creek flooded his Parkside East apartment and sent him to sleep on a cot inside Hoyt Middle School, Stanislaus Sesay was back in the same room, displaced again from the same Des Moines apartment complex. Sesay, 39,...
Six years after chants of “Black Lives Matter” filled the streets of Des Moines and the nation, a new Iowa law repeals the implicit bias training requirements for Iowa’s law enforcement adopted in 2020. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed House File...
A long-empty former school and community center listed among Des Moines’ most endangered buildings could be razed to make way for the first phase of a long-awaited project to provide affordable housing for people experiencing chronic...
Colfax takes a breath after flooding.
Musician Ringo Starr turns 86. Actor Joe Spano, 80. Singer David Hodo (The Village People), 79. Actor Roz Ryan, 75. Filmmaker Akiva Goldsman, 64. Bassist Mark White (Spin Doctors), 64. Singer-songwriter Vonda Shepard, 63. Comedian-actor Mo...
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